Life Sciences

Orangutan Whistles And The Evolution Of Speech

Primates, an international journal of primatology that provides a forum on all aspects of primates in ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2008 - 11:51am

Big Sugar Won't Like This Princeton Study On Addiction

"That's what is called binge eating-- when you eat a lot all at once-- in this case they are bingeing on ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2008 - 12:33pm

In Vitro Evolution- RNA That Replicates Itself Indefinitely Created, Say Researchers

together with all of their constituent subunits, and allowed them to compete in a molecular test of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 11 2009 - 2:33pm

Clonal Interference- Evolution Gets Even More Dynamic In Time For Darwin's Birthday

of waste, they'll need to know all of the particular pathways where genes are involved in the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2009 - 2:26pm

DNA 'Hotspots' Are Genetic Marker For Psoriasis, Say Researchers

cases and 5,051 controls.  In all, seven of the 18 loci showed consistently strong association with ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2009 - 2:27pm

In An Evolutionary Pinch, Big Mutations May Be Helpful

were helpful. Not all of the duplication events had to have survival value (some probably become fixed ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 17 2009 - 11:12pm

Psychedelica- A Fish Aging Hipsters Can Love (And You Can Too)

attract pray, Pietsch says. Instead of all that showiness, members of H. psychedelica are shy and ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2009 - 10:50am

Synthetic Biology To The Rescue In Anti-Malaria Treatment

possibility of microbes developing resistance to it. Right now artemisinin is grown by farmers all over the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2009 - 4:36pm

DNA Self-Assembly, But With A Plan, Using 'Origami Seeds'

and just about all biological objects are created from the bottom up." Along with his coworkers, ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2009 - 8:50pm

Human Swine Flu Cases With Unique Strain Raise Concern (Though The Possibility Was Mentioned Over A Year Ago)

lead to human-to-human transmission, but all need to be investigated thoroughly, the agency states. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 26 2009 - 3:03pm